MARC FITCH FUND — grant history

Registered charity 313303 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£247k

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

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Accounts grants total

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extracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Prospective applicants should submit a brief outline of their project by e-mail. If the proposal meets the Fund’s criteria, the relevant application forms will be provided.
What they don’t fund: The Fund does not contribute to scientific and technical research, only work in the humanities and social sciences. We do not fund fieldwork, only the publication of the results of such work.

Summarised from www.marcfitchfund.org.uk on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (7 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (5 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (4 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (6 grantees)
Darlington (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
British Museum	FY2023	£100k	English Medieval Coin Hoards: age of the sterling penny 1180-1351 and English Medieval Coin Hoards: from the return to gold to the Great Debasement 1351-1560
Bodleian Library, Oxford	FY2023	£38k	Understanding the medieval Gough Map through Physics, Chemistry and History
The York Medieval Press	FY2023	£28k	The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York
Yale University Press	FY2023	£28k	The Buildings of England: Staffordshire
Colchester & Ipswich Museums Service	FY2023	£28k	Creating Constable
Book Owners Online	FY2023	£28k
Courtauld Institute	FY2023	£26k	The National Wall Paintings Archive
Victoria County History	FY2023	£25k	Red Books Digitisation
Historic Towns Atlas	FY2023	£25k
Welsh Place-names Society	FY2023	£25k	Place-names of Carmarthenshire
Victoria County History	FY2023	£14k	VCH Wiltshire volume XIX, Mere and the Deverill Harlaxton Valley
Canterbury Archaeological Trust	FY2023	£9k	Transitions and Relationships over Land and Sea in the Early Middle Ages of Northern Europe
The Canterbury and York Society	FY2023	£7k	The Visitation of Hereford Diocese in 1397
Victoria County History	FY2023	£5k	Medieval Newport (Shropshire): an edition of charters and other sources to c. 1550
University of Sheffield	FY2023	£5k	Digitising the Medieval Guild Certificates of 1388-9: a pilot project
8th Darlington (Cockerton Green) Scout Group	FY2023	£4k	Archive digitisation
Twentieth-century Society	FY2023	£4k	Patrick Gwynne
Hearth Tax Research Project	FY2023	£4k
National Musuem Scotland	FY2023	£3k	The iron artefacts from Trimontium, the Roman fort at Newstead
Archaeopress	FY2023	£3k	Hadrian's Wall Cultural Resource Management 2022
Archaeopress	FY2023	£3k	Moel-y-Gaer, Bodfari, a small hillfort in Denbighshire, Wales
The Royal Historical Society	FY2023	£2k	The Rise of the Modern Historical Profession
St Bartholomew the Great	FY2023	£2k	900 Years
Prehistoric Society	FY2023	£2k	Neolithic Stone Extraction
University of Leicester	FY2023	£2k	The Wilberforce Diaries, 1779-1833: Parliament, Reform, and Abolition
Boydell & Brewer	FY2023	£1k	Frisians of the Early Middle Ages
Faculty of Archaeology, University of Oxford	FY2023	£1k	Moel-y-Gar hillfort excavation report
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland	FY2023	£1k	Radar in Scotland 1938-46
Faculty of History, University of Oxford	FY2023	£1k	The Writs and Charters of William II Symposium: Medieval Travel
British Academy	FY2023	£1k	Anglo-Saxon Charters of Worcester Cathedral
Victoria County History	FY2023	£1k	Digitisation of Northern Archaeology
Yale University Press	FY2023	£1k	Wiltshire Non-conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses
Historic Towns Atlas	FY2023	£1k	Coventry Historical Map
University of Exeter Press	FY2023	£960	Sacrament an Alter
Prehistoric Society	FY2023	£500	Fragments of Bronze
Victoria County History	FY2023	£500	Economic History chapter of VCH Wilts Vol 20: Chippenham
Historic Towns Atlas	FY2023	£500	Town and country; perspectives from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas

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